Thirty five Houthi militias’ members were killed in Al-Jawf governorate during intense battles with the Yemeni national army, while Arab coalition fighter jets destroyed five military vehicles belonging to the Iranian-backed militias. This comes while the Yemeni army backed by the coalition in al-Jawf governorate seize control over several strategic mountains located in Wadi Salba. The official spokesman of the first brigade border guards, Lieutenant Colonel Faisal al-Afraa, told Al ...

Social media portals in Iran were flooded with videos on Thursday and Friday carrying footage of football fans chanting political and national slogans in favor of Ahvazi Arabs, Turks and Azerbaijani, which led to police intervention leading to clashes with the football fans in both Ghadir Ahvaz and Azadi Tehran playgrounds. Clashes at the Ghadir Ahvaz Stadium on Thursday and in Tehran on Friday, started actually since last Friday when Foolad Khuzestan Football team representing Ahvaz Arabs was a ...

Israeli police reopened al-Aqsa mosque gates after hours of closure on Friday, when clashes erupted with Palestinian worshippers following midday prayers. Muslim worshippers returned to the site around four hours after they were forced out by police using tear gas. Earlier, the waqf, the religious authority that runs the mosque, confirmed the gates were closed after clashes broke out, as AFP reported. Reuters news agency reported that masked youth cracked fireworks in the direction of Israeli ...

Libya’s Es Sider oil port shut on Thursday due to armed clashes in the area and at least one storage tank in the neighbouring Ras Lanuf terminal was set alight, an engineer told Reuters. Loadings were suspended at Ras Lanuf, according to a local shipping agent. The clashes between forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) and rival armed groups were taking place south of Ras Lanuf, where the LNA was targeting its rivals with air strikes, local sources said. The ...

The chief of the UN peacekeeping force in Darfur on Sunday expressed regret over recent clashes in Sudan's western war-torn region, which he said has left villages burnt and people displaced. The latest fighting, in the Jebel Marra mountains, came despite a ceasefire unilaterally announced by Khartoum in March, applying to Darfur and another conflict in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. The fighting had erupted in Jebel Marra between the Sudanese government forces and the Sudan Liberation ...

Iranian sources reported on Tuesday the death of three Gonabadi Sufis in the hospital hours after being shot in clashes with Iranian security forces north of the capital Tehran. The site "Zaytoun" reported that the Iranian police forces have transferred three Gonabadi Sufis on Monday evening to the hospital in Tehran and were reported dead on Tuesday night as their injuries were fatal. Monday evening witnessed intense clashes between protesters and the security forces in the Iranian ...

Armed groups clashed Friday in western Libya, forcing the closure of a key border crossing with Tunisia, an official and a military commander said. The clashes took place near the Ras Jedir border post, the main crossing between western Libya and southeastern Tunisia. The crossing has been controlled by militias from the western port city of Zuwara since the fall of longtime dictator Moamer Kadhafi in 2011 in a NATO-backed revolt. On Friday, a force set up by the country's United Nations-backed ...

One civilian was killed and dozens of others injured on Saturday after massive anti-India protests and clashes erupted in Indian-controlled Kashmir following the killing of a prominent rebel commander and his associate in a gunbattle with government forces in the disputed region.Rebel leader Sabzar Ahmed Bhat and a fellow militant were killed after troops cordoned off the southern Tral area overnight following a tip that rebels were hiding there, police said.The gunbattle ended later Saturday ...

At least 13 people were killed and nearly 80 wounded in fierce clashes Friday between forces loyal to the UN-backed unity government and rival militiamen, the health ministry said.A security official for the Government of National Accord separately gave a toll of 23 loyalist forces killed and 29 wounded, but medical sources were not immediately available to confirm those figures.

Dozens of Palestinians were hurt on Friday in the occupied West Bank and Gaza during clashes with Israeli forces after marches backing hunger-striking prisoners, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said.Both the Red Crescent and the health ministry in Gaza said protesters were injured by tear gas, rubber bullets and live fire.Thousands of people demonstrated in various parts of the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by the Israeli army, and near the security barrier that seals off the Gaza Strip, AFP ...